[GRASS-dev] MinGW/MSYS Build

[Glynn Clements]

Huddleston, John wrote:

> I have starting building GRASS6.4.1RC1 under the native Windows
> MinGW/MSYS (not Cygwin) environment.

> Now I am up to the point where it requires the X11 libraries. Does
> anyone have any experience building X11 under MinGW? Should I be
> using XFree86-4.8.0 or some other source.

There isn't much point building GRASS with X11 support under native
Windows. The standalone display drivers (d.mon etc) don't work for
reasons unrelated to X.

If you need to use d.mon on Windows, Cygwin is the only option.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>